Hi. This is a former mp game via ip address but my friends lost interest so I'll continue it as single player game. Not sure if asking assistance to ongoing mp game is considered unethical.
My empire:
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A little description of the game: I didn't like the starting position so I decided to move south. Still not ideal but in short term ok city site with gold for fast research and production. Researched mining-AH-the wheel-BW. Production was warrior and worker at size 2 to prevent waste of worker turns. I saw Louis very close so I decided to try some worker stealing. I also like rushing more than peaceful expansion. It went well imo: I've built only two worker myself so far, got 4 more from Louis.
Raging barbs were a concern so I decided to settle horse site to north asap. With agg warriors and chariots I was able to prevent my improvements from being pillaged. I had to send 3 chariots spawnbust to east because the barbs were such a pia. I also made sure that Louis never was able touse his horses or copper, barbs helped me with crippling him. At the same time I expanded south to the gold FP site to make a science city.
After researching archery(to counter barb spears+ HAs need it)-writing-pottery for economy I decided to tech HBR. I could have tried IW too, but thought that better go for the sure thing. I settled Birka to east, whipped HAs from Uppsala and chopped them from Nidaros. Then conquest! Captured two French cities and eliminated him. While doing that I was also researching Alpha so I could backfill after the war.
Now that I have aplha and got IW, mas, myst and sailing I'm facing slow tech rates. At the same time I'm pressed to expand west or else Japan takes those sites. Settling another gold city wouldn't hurt the economy, would it? I was planning to tech math for better chopping, then aest-lit for wonder/failgold. Shwedagon paya could be ok for free religion, parth could be nice and gl definitely would. But with this slow tech, I'm not sure. Also not many wonders built in this game: only GW, mids and stonehenge. It could be risky play to try oracle this late, but failgold would also be ok, I just need the teches. So what do you think I should do?
My empire:
Spoiler :
Settings:
Spoiler :
A little description of the game: I didn't like the starting position so I decided to move south. Still not ideal but in short term ok city site with gold for fast research and production. Researched mining-AH-the wheel-BW. Production was warrior and worker at size 2 to prevent waste of worker turns. I saw Louis very close so I decided to try some worker stealing. I also like rushing more than peaceful expansion. It went well imo: I've built only two worker myself so far, got 4 more from Louis.
Raging barbs were a concern so I decided to settle horse site to north asap. With agg warriors and chariots I was able to prevent my improvements from being pillaged. I had to send 3 chariots spawnbust to east because the barbs were such a pia. I also made sure that Louis never was able touse his horses or copper, barbs helped me with crippling him. At the same time I expanded south to the gold FP site to make a science city.
After researching archery(to counter barb spears+ HAs need it)-writing-pottery for economy I decided to tech HBR. I could have tried IW too, but thought that better go for the sure thing. I settled Birka to east, whipped HAs from Uppsala and chopped them from Nidaros. Then conquest! Captured two French cities and eliminated him. While doing that I was also researching Alpha so I could backfill after the war.
Now that I have aplha and got IW, mas, myst and sailing I'm facing slow tech rates. At the same time I'm pressed to expand west or else Japan takes those sites. Settling another gold city wouldn't hurt the economy, would it? I was planning to tech math for better chopping, then aest-lit for wonder/failgold. Shwedagon paya could be ok for free religion, parth could be nice and gl definitely would. But with this slow tech, I'm not sure. Also not many wonders built in this game: only GW, mids and stonehenge. It could be risky play to try oracle this late, but failgold would also be ok, I just need the teches. So what do you think I should do?